U.S. Embassy Oslo alerts U.S. citizens of ongoing public sector strikes in Norway. Public sector workers nationwide have gone on strike due to a dispute over wages and working conditions. It is unclear at this time how long the strike will last. The strike may disrupt public services, including transportation, hospitals, and police. If you are planning travel in, or to, Norway, contact your travel company for further details and make appropriate arrangements. Individuals needing consular assistance from the U.S. Embassy should contact the Embassy by email, or by telephone (+47 2130-8550, or +47 2244- 8550, after hours). The U.S. Embassy in Oslo is located at Henrik Ibsens Gate 48. Americans traveling abroad should regularly monitor the U.S. Embassy’s website and review the Country Specific Information for Norway on our Bureau of Consular Affairs website. Read article
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An American woman has claimed that she was attacked by the same “tame” cheetahs that made headlines after attacking a Scottish tourist at a Port Elizabeth game reserve last week. Michelle Bodenheimer from Portland, Oregon, told The Times that she was also attacked by cheetah cubs when she visited the same reserve with her husband […]
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A tourist guide involved in drugging foreigners and then decamping with their goods has been arrested in outer Delhi, police said on Monday. With the arrest, police claimed to solve four cases. Robert, 32, of Najafgarh was nabbed near his house on Sunday, said additional deputy commissioner of police (crime) Sanjay Bhatia, adding that some […]
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According to EFE, the co-pilot of a Peruvian police helicopter was killed and three other persons aboard the chopper injured on Thursday (April 12) wounded when unknown assailants fired on the chopper, causing it to land in the Alto Kepashiato. When it took on ground fire, the helicopter was searching for 43 employees of Coga […]
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PHUKET: A young German tourist who was attacked by knife-wielding bag thieves in Krabi City at the weekend had a portion of her thumb cut off in the assault, authorities in Krabi confirmed today. The sliced portion of thumb was restored in an emergency operation yesterday at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, Phuketwan has learned. One of […]
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German tourists Sammy Hellwig, 73, and his wife, Tracy, 60, were heading for their parked car in the 3200 block of Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale (FL) on Monday (March 5) when they decided they would both stop at the restrooms before going to their car. Unfortunately, three men followed Mr. Hellwig into the men’s […]
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High-profile attacks on Canadians in Mexico have put the popular tourist destination in the hot seat. But it may not be as dangerous a place for travellers as you think. On average, three Canadians for every 100,000 visiting Mexico are killed or assaulted per year, according to more than a decade’s worth of data from […]
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Carnivorous fish attacked bathers in a river in southern Brazil, leaving about 20 of them with bite wounds on their hands and feet, a news website said Monday, citing lifeguards. The unusual attack occurred Sunday when a school of palometas, a species of piranhas, surprised hundreds of tourists bathing at a beach in Toropi, in […]
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Peruvian authorities are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year. The behaviour of the small group of Mashco-Piro Indians has puzzled scientists, who say it may be related to the encroachment of loggers […]
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Bedouin tribesmen have stormed a tourist resort in the Sinai peninsula in an effort to reclaim land – the latest in a string of conflicts between the Egyptian state and local communities emboldened by the revolution. Egyptian media reports said dozens of gunmen took control of Aqua-Sun, a Red Sea hotel complex boasting 2km of […]
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